Reaction from Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola following their game against Brighton on Saturday was interesting as they dropped more points.
MORE — Man City 2-2 Brighton
City lost at Nottingham Forest last weekend to throw more doubt over whether or not they will finish in the Champions League qualification spots, and they twice coughed up a lead against Brighton to draw this weekend.
Here’s the reaction from Pep Guardiola after Manchester City vs Brighton.
Pep Guardiola reaction
On the race for Champions League qualification: “Nine games, nine finals. It looks like it [will go down to the last day]. Nine games still until the end of the season. We have tough games.
On his general thoughts on the game: “The performance was much, much, much better than the Nottingham Forest game. We make good moments. We had two goals in the first half and clear chances with Savinho. They are so good and they link inside and have pace with Mitoma and Minteh. In duels with Baleba and Gomez they are really good. Jeremy was incredible threat and Omar played really well with the goal and the assist. Ruben was fantastic with Kusa and in general it was good. We started the second half 2-1 up and had a good chance. In the corner we were sloppy and they equalized then we were unstable. That is normal. We came back in the game and had really good moments. They had one clear chance then but we were there and we pushed until the end. We’ll take the point.”
On both teams having chances to win: “Unfortunately, we couldn’t win. They had chances, but we had two clear chances with Savio [Savinho]. We will take the point and go forward. This is football. We have to accept it. We have conceded a lot of goals this season and that’s because of something missing.”
On injuries to Ederson and Bernardo Silva: “Something abdominal - he [Ederson] doesn’t feel good and we could not take a risk… I was seeing Bernardo couldn’t walk properly. Don’t take a risk.”
